On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 19:42:53 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Progressive rendering made sense back when you could literally watch each image on the page gradually get pulled in over the wire (and when the layout more or less matched the HTML as it came in over-the-wire). But now it's mostly just a clunky user experience.
It still makes a lot of sense. The key is to organize the page so that the top part is reach a stable state while the rest of the page loads. Other solutions will have to wait until we can kiss IE9 goodbye for good. (not yet)
You may also embed images in the HTML. Just try "view image in new window" on amazon. So you can embed images in the upper part of your webpage for faster initial display if you want.
